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Welcome to the System z Management Blog, where you can read the perspectives from System z experts. This Blog provides insights into the System z solution, as well as technical details about specific IBM products.

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For those of you who are new to System Automation or have already a lot of experience, but are puzzled by the new panels of this SA release and want to know how to get the best out of it, I want to give some usage hints. To be able to add some screen shots I have created a PDF and stored it into the Files-section, the title is “SA z/OS Automation Table Definition Hints”. I kept it fairly short and arranged it around the following three questions: How to specify an odd message-id, e. g. mixed case How to position a message trap within the AT... [More]

IBM invites you to join the new Customer Collaboration Program! The
Tivoli Workload Automation (TWA) 8.6 Customer Collaboration Program
(CCP) - which focused on Release 8 Version 6 of TWSz and TWSd - has
successful closed. This
program involved Sixty-seven (67) companies in the development of the
release and more then 64 enhancements were integrated into TWA 8.6. TWA development helds 30 Webcast session for demo session and design review and also 45 Usability session. IBM
is glad to announce that the CCP will continue to... [More]

Hi Community please have a look to the following documents where the benefits of this feature are illustrated ! Do you need to condition the start of a job to a specific return code of a predecessor job? Would you like to shorten your workload execution time by conditioning the start of a job to a specific step return code without waiting the whole job execution? Conditional logic feature is what can help you to realize these scenarios. The feature is well described in the TWS for z/OS Managing the Workload manual (there is a dedicated... [More]

Do you ever wonder who is using the most resources in your SYSPLEX right now? Now with OMEGAMON XE for zOS 5.1.0 in the Enhanced 3270 there is workspace that shows the top 10 consumers in your SYSPLEX. It lists the top 10 jobs (address spaces) currently using CPU, Real Storage, Virtual Storage, CSA, ECSA, i/O, Enqueue conflicts and worst Service Class Performance indexes. Here is the first page of the workspace, you can scroll down for the rest or scroll down in each sub panel to see all 10. Quick view of that... [More]

Here's a link to the Ed Woods video on OMEGAMON XE for z/OS 5.1.0 e3270ui: OMEGAMON XE for z/OS v5.1.0 demo video It's just a short (less than 10 minutes) video of the tool. This video is also referenced from the Ed Woods blog, Tivoli With a Z

Here is a video on OMEGAMON XE for zOS 5.1.0 and its ability to show the output from the zOS Health Checker. You can under the e3270ui or the TEP interfaces now see in OMEGAMON XE for zOS 5.1.0 the current recommendations from the zOS Health Checks that have run on the current LPAR. OMEGAMON Health Checker video

Check out the video the new OMEGAMON XE 5.1.0 Enhanced 3270 User Interface Basic usage. This will show you how to navigate the new interface quickly to get the information needed to solve problems. OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 User Interface Basic Use

In the OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 User Interface Display video recently posted you learned about the characteristics of the enhanced 3270 display and saw basic information about how to navigate the interface. You should also check out the OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 User Interface Navigation video where you'll learn more about navigating the interface. OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 User Interface Naviagation ,

Just a reminder that OMEGAMON XE for zOS (4.2.0 and 5.1.0) will use RMF to collect metrics like Coupling Facility, XCF and Locking. This is a way to lower the OMEGAMON collection cpu used for customers already collecting this information with RMF. We plan to continue to use RMF more over time for OMEGAMON collection.

With the OMEGAMON e3270ui user interface there can be times the user sees "No Data" conditions on the 3270. Â The attached document is a first place to look for the most common reasons this may happen. Â It also has a beginner guide to all the major components you need in order to see e3270ui workspace data.Â Trobleshooting e3270ui No-Data OMEGAMON V1.2 T

OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks v5.1.0 became available today! OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks provides system monitoring and performance management across System z with an easy-to-use enhanced 3270 user interface Improve the efficiency of network problem resolution by requiring fewer steps to isolate root cause of performance problems in real time, and therefore, enabling higher availability. Improve visibility, control, and automation across network resources with a new more comprehensive enhanced 3270-based UI capable of viewing... [More]

Well it is very exciting that all the z OMEGAMON's now have the e3270ui in GA status. That includes OMEGAMON XE for zOS 5.1.0, OMEGAMON XE for CICS 5.1.0, OMEGAMON XE for IMS 5.1.0, OMEGAMON XE for Storage 5.1.0, OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks 5.1.0, OMEGAMON XE for DB2PE 5.1.1, OMEGAMON XE for Messaging 7.1.0. The KOBSTART view in the e3270ui will get you started to where to go to solve problems with all these OMEAGMON's. Here is an example: e3270ui screen